Liberation Debate - Rights at Issue

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This well-documented collection challenges the reader to examine and judge the arguments in six areas of contemporary unrest: women's liberation, black liberation, gay liberation, children's liberation, animal liberation and liberation in the Third World. It refrains from taking a single point of view, thus allowing the reader to gain an insight into the various aspects of the debate. Designed both for students and a general audience, The Liberation Debate encourages readers to become active participants in fraught and topical debates. pt. 1. Women's liberation. The case for feminism / Jean Hampton ; A response to Jean Hampton's feminism / Antony Flew ; Hampton's reply -- pt. 2. Black liberation. Black liberation, yes! / Bernard R. Boxill ; Blacks don't need liberating / Michael Levin ; Boxill's reply -- pt. 3. Gay liberation. Lesbian and gay rights : pro / Martha Nussbaum ; Gay reservations / Roger Scruton ; Nussbaum's reply -- pt. 4. Children's liberation. Liberating children / John Harris ; Children's liberation : a blueprint for disaster / Laura Purdy ; Harris' reply -- pt. 5. Animal liberation. For animal rights / Andrew Linzey ; Brute equivocation / Michael Leahy ; Linzey's reply -- pt. 6. Liberation theology. A new agenda for society / Dan Cohn-Sherbok ; Some procedural problems / John Wilson ; Cohn-Sherbok's reply